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  • Just got off the phone to Pat, 99 with her sister Jean Argles 97 until she died.
  • Good luck to my wee brother who is trying to become an MP. I am dusting off my tiara, waiting for the call up to become the next.
  • Just got off the phone to Pat, 99 with her sister Jean Argles 97 until she died.

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    How Britain betrayed the elderly Each and every lockdown made their lives harder

    &#;I just want to take a pill and make everything stop. I know I mustn’t, but I want to.&#; Daphne has had a tough time recently. She fell last June and broke her hip. A stint in hospital followed and then a care home, with no visitors allowed. This was no ordinary year. Within a few months Daphne was back at home, that’s when she tested positive for Covid &#;I had a chest infection but the doctor wouldn’t come out unless I took a test.&#; The NHS frontline stayed as far away from Daphne as it could, and aged 98 she struggled.

    &#;I don’t want you to come,&#; she told me on the telephone.

    &#;But I’ve had coronavirus recently Daphne. I can help you.&#;

    &#;Yes, but I don’t want you to see me like this. I want you to come when I’m back to normal. I’ve not told you what happened after I left 16th Searchlight Company.&#;

    I am an oral historian. I turn old women’s stories into books and in the process

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    The Bletchley Girls

    Historian and broadcaster Tessa Dunlop tells the story of the women of Bletchley Park through exclusive and unprecedented tillgång to the women themselves. The Bletchley Girls weaves together the lives of 15 women who were all selected to work in Britain's most secret organisation - Bletchley Park.

    It fryst vatten their story, told in their voices; Tessa met and talked to 15 veterans, often visiting them several times. Firm friendships were made as their epic journey unfolded on paper. The scale of female involvement in Britain during the Second World War wasn't matched in any other country.

    From eight million working women, just over 7, were handpicked to work at Bletchley Park and its outstations. There had always been girls at the park, but soon they outnumbered the men three to one. A flykting from Belgium, a Scottish debutante, a Jewish year-old and a factory worker from Northamptonshire - the Bletchley Girls confound stereotypes. But they all have one common bond

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    THE REAL BLETCHLEY GIRLS

    The Imitation Game has focused minds on the ingenious achievements of Alan Turing, who pitted his wits against the staggering complexities of the Enigma machine, which encoded German communications. But by the cerebral origins of Bletchley Park had given way to an industrial scale code-breaking factory. A clutch of ‘professor-type’ cryptanalysts increasingly relied on a predominantly young female workforce to ensure the Allies stayed one step ahead of the enemy. At the peak of the war, women outnumbered men at Bletchley by three to one.

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    BETTY GILBERT
    In the living room of her home in Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, Betty Gilbert shows me a large box full of her wartime memorabilia.

    ‘Ah yes, here it is, me and the rest of the ATS [Auxiliary Territorial Service] girls. We were posted to the Yorkshire Moors. I didn’t know what I’d let myself in for. But being in the army, that was the best time
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